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Dean Shamess

@deanshamess.ca
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deanshamess.ca Ph.D. Candidate at JSGS USask // Science Policy, Science of Science, Science and Power and Popul(ar)ism // econ, policy, polisci… whatever works

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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 24/09/2026
I am not part of society, but society need not worry for I will do everything myself and make this perfect.
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 24/09/2026
I mean…. Come on. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
A quote from Jensen Huang: “ But it turns out that's not society's problem, that's my problem. For society, what they should know is this: We're going to build our company, we're going to build our technology, I'm going to do my work so incredibly seriously that what they get to enjoy is my optimism. I do the same with my
children. I do the same with my family.”
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 18/09/2026
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 11/09/2026
Find me an economist who hasn’t “leveraged” every survey, piece of observational data, natural experiment, theory etc. that they’ve ever written about…
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ugh. Neither is further institutionalization what metascience needs as a field nor is a centralized metascience that issues science-wide mandates what sciences need. This kind of thing is something I've been strongly against even without an office of metascience at NSF. But I could see it coming.
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The interventionist, top-down, efficiency-driven approach to science policy depresses me even without that power being abused by an authoritarian government that is deeply scared of science and scientists but is aware of and needs to exploit its rhetorical power in society.
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 10/09/2026
Further proof of my “Ottawa is just big Peterborough” theory
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 08/09/2026
One thing in favour of Michael - his salary is revealed to be incredibly low as a major plot point. And, he does later take on a second job to make ends meet on his condo/duplex.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
shades of
Batman interrogating Joker meme. Batman in top panel saying "Why would you ruin your career?" Joker in bottom panel saying "I'm an academic".
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 05/09/2026
Funny how only one of these can, unquestionably, be linked to some tangible harm caused by the “misconduct” too
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ICPSR Summer Program @icpsrsummer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Visit us at booth 316 at the American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference in Boston September 3-5! The swag is choice, and the exhibitors are nice! 😉 #SumProg #ICPSR #APSA2026 #PoliticalScience #SocialScience
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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 03/09/2026
New preprint w/ Jian Gao, @yianyin.bsky.social & @dashunwang.bsky.social. We link campaign finance, faculty rosters, voter files, a ~7,000-scientist survey & bibliometrics to ask if scientists' politics show up in the science that gets made & used. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

Scientific institutions are designed to produce and evaluate claims through shared evidentiary and disciplinary standards, yet they are embedded in an increasingly polarized society. This fundamental tension raises the question of whether scientists’ partisan alignment is associated with the production, circulation, and uptake of scientific knowledge. Here we integrate campaign-finance records, faculty rosters, voter-registration data, an original survey of approximately 7,000 active U.S. scientists, bibliometric data, and measures of uptake in policy documents, patents, and news coverage to map the partisan composition of the scientific workforce, the knowledge it produces, and its uptake within and beyond science. We find that U.S. science is politically asymmetric without being ideologically homogeneous: scientists who make political contributions are overwhelmingly Democratic-aligned, and this asymmetry has widened over time, yet the broader workforce includes many Independents and substantial ideological heterogeneity within partisan groups. Among scientists with strong, behaviorally observed partisan alignments, Democratic- and Republican-authored papers are systematically distinguishable in semantic content across all fields, even after conditioning on fine-grained topic and year. Differences in total scientific citation rates are modest and have narrowed over time, whereas citations occur more often within the same partisan author communities than expected under topic- and year-preserving null models. Uptake beyond science also varies by partisan authorship and domain, with the clearest directional selectivity among ideological think tanks. These findings reveal an uneven profile of partisan association across U.S. science, visible in published content and directional attention, but comparatively limited in aggregate scientific recognition. party composition of donors from 1980-2022voter registration (E) and partisan self identification from a survey (F)
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 03/09/2026
The centrists of my friends is my enemy
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 03/09/2026
Where is the above screenshot from??
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Angela Potochnik @apotochnik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who counts as a scientist, who gets to decide what counts as scientific, and are academics relevant to public engagement? Check out this Metascience symposium on Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project. 1/ @mjacquart.bsky.social @metasciencejournal.bsky.social #philsci #scicomm �
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Book symposium: Public Engagement with Science: Defining the Project (Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart)
Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart. 2025. Public engagement with science: defining the project. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. This book is the ...
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 25/08/2026
strangerthings.fandom.com/wiki/Eleven 11/10 (Complimentary)
strangerthings.fandom.com
Eleven
Jane Hopper (born Jane Ives), also known as Eleven or El, is a main character in Stranger Things and its spin-off animated series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. She is portrayed by Millie Bobby Brow...
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 25/08/2026
static.klipy.com
Millie Bobby Millie Bobby Brown
ALT: Millie Bobby Millie Bobby Brown
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 24/08/2026
Maybe it's just that references look like jank in their pdf parsing and then... something happens that makes that seem AI... doesn't inspire a tonne of confidence.
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Dietram A. Scheufele @dietram.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“[LLM] use has increased rapidly and is associated with proposals that are less semantically distinctive from recently funded work. At NIH, such proposals are more likely to be funded and to yield more publications.” #AI #scipol #scicomm #trust www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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The rise of large language models and the direction and impact of US federal research funding | PNAS
Federal research funding shapes the direction, diversity, and impact of the US scientific enterprise. Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly diff...
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 14/08/2026
Right
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 05/08/2026
There’s legit (ie not Hegseth-esque) video of him benching 315 … just sayin‘ for all the fans
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 05/08/2026
Got an R&R at a good journal on a project that, at various times, has been described internally as “cursed”, “unfathomable disaster” and “definitely still cursed”. I assume by posting this the curse will return / the gods will punish my hubris. So that’s fun!
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 01/08/2026
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Monkey Puppet Meme: Ummm You Listed
ALT: Monkey Puppet Meme: Ummm You Listed
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 29/07/2026
Former climbing guide - this is one of the most important and difficult parts of climbing/guiding. There is a deep, inherent tension when climbing becomes a “service” that is 99.99% of the time well handled by clients, it all comes down to safety. The other times are horrible situations for all.
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 29/07/2026
I dunno man, if I ran a $200bn business that largely sells tshirts, I probably wouldn’t mouth off about destroying democracy and equal rights… but ymmv I guess 🤷‍♀️
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 27/07/2026
As a still-Mac-mail user, it also does this…. And I find it absolutely absurd
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The portal to Hell has been opened. End Times are near…
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Jeffrey Lin @jeffrlin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
We develop a spatial competition model to explain spreading out: inventors ("you", below) choose locations in idea space. As the frontier expands and entry costs rise, they spread out — capturing larger territories, raising R&D investment and invention quality even as knowledge spillovers attenuate.
Diagram showing circular idea space and location of inventor ("you")Diagram showing how innovation expands the frontier
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
6. On a more serious note, I work a lot in the science of science. The report prominently claims that scientific breakthroughs are far rarer than they used to be, and concludes that this somehow the fault of the funding system. Such claims are egregious misrepresentations of the cited research.
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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I deleted my earlier estimate after finding an error in the code. The long list (18 pages) of affected goods is equivalent to just under 5% of Canadian goods imported into the US for consumption. That's not nothing, but it's not everything. Source for USTR data: dataweb.usitc.gov/trade/search...
dataweb.usitc.gov
DataWeb
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 19/07/2026
Case in point (I know AoS isn’t “fantasy” to some of you… and also isn’t Fantasy™️ but cmon)
A wargaming miniature of a funny looking frog man sitting on a stone throne that hovers inside of some discs and has general jungle detritus hanging around
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“To accommodate the expected funding withdrawal, programme officers…are being required to pull back proposals that have already passed peer review and have been recommended for funding….[M]any of the researchers who submitted those proposals had already been informed” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
NSF plans cuts to core science programmes to fund White House initiative
A proposed clawback of already distributed research funds comes as the US agency struggles with a squeezed budget and a backlog of grant applications.
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 14/07/2026
Post punk, imo
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 10/07/2026
They’re really pushing me to also hate Fable because of its tone though.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/07/2026
challenging to phrase this exactly right because it'd be in bad taste to use this as a gotcha against all his supporters, but the journalists who very explicitly framed Platner as a rejection of stuff like "HR Lady Politics" or (ugh) "smoothgroins" should take a long, hard, look in the mirror today
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"The more phil of science I read, and the more familiar I became with different pockets of the metascience community, the more I came to realize how little consensus there is about how to evaluate science. But I don’t blame those who default to thinking the metascientists have figured things out.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yet again www.nber.org/papers/w3535...
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 13/06/2026
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.
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Jaap van Slageren @jvanslageren.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Job opportunity!! Are you interested in studying new politicizations of science? And are you interested in how these politicizations could meaningfully be addressed in university education? Then we are looking for you! 🗓 Application deadline: 27 July 2026 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD: Understanding the politization of university knowledge and education
Are you passionate about understanding the growing politicization of science and how to address these topics in university education?
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Just now learning that raccoons are *legally permitted* to go through your trash
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Even knowing of the existence of Twitch streamers is an unfortunate state of being, to be vulgar enough to 'debate about them' on Bluesky.app takes one from tragedy to farce
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2026
walking is low key my favorite activity
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 26/05/2026
1) I clearly can't type while eating hotel buffet breakfast eggs... 2) As always, Rafe ends the post with an absolute banger! 3) John Wick rips, and rips for everyone, if you can just let it exist in your life for a couple hours.
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Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 26/05/2026
John Widk 2-4 when tho?
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I watched John Wick and I discovered that labour is capital’s dead wife. open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
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Things I like about watching John Wick in chronological order
This does not quite do what it says on the tin but it’s close
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
"Science is not simply a sequence of tasks that can be optimized....The scientific system thrives on inefficiency: redundant efforts, failed attempts, and divergent paths. These are not costs to be eliminated but sources of discovery." Excellent essay! ⬇️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Progression without progress
Progress in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance scientific discovery has made it increasingly realistic to envision automated “end-to-end science” (ETES) systems: integrated pipelines t...
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